A Florida woman has been arrested after an attack against Rep. Matt Gaetz that happened on Saturday, according to authorities.
“Walton County Sheriff’s Office is confirming reports that our agency responded to an incident at an event in Miramar Beach Saturday involving Representative Matt Gaetz,” said WCSO.
A 41-year-old Tallahassee woman, Selena Chambers, was arrested after it was found by responding deputies that she intentionally threw a glass of wine at Representative Gaetz after shouting obscenities at him.
She was charged with battery on an elected official and issued a $1,000 bond. She was released the following day.
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“We cannot allow an environment where you can throw things at elected officials because you don’t like them,” said Sheriff Adkinson. “No matter your political affiliation, this is not the way to conduct yourself and will not be tolerated in Walton County.”
Readers of The Free Press may recall in April, a New Hampshire man was indicted for making a death threat against Gaetz.
As The Free Press reported, the Fort Walton Beach Republican played the voicemail allegedly left by Poller on his “Firebrand” podcast.
Poller actually left his name in the message, in which he told Gaetz, “I just want to let you know, Rep. Matt Gaetz, that if you keep on coming for the gays, we’re gonna strike back — and I guarantee you that you do not want to f–k with us.”
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“We will kill you if that’s what it takes,” Poller added. “I will take a bullet to your f–king head if you f–k with my rights anymore.”
Poller reportedly left the threat after Gaetz made remarks about the transgender man who massacred six people, including three children, at a Christian school in Nashville in March.
On his broadcast, Gaetz argued that the Democrats “are purposefully riling up their nutty shock troops in the hopes they will terrorize normal Americans into submission. And more will come.”
He also said it was time to reopen insane asylums.
“There are severely mentally ill people who do not have a right to wander our streets, seeking who they are going to terrorize,” he said.
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“It does not make us more just or more compassionate to have them walking among the rest of us.”
Following due process under the Constitution, he added, “We have to put some people away. … Good people have a right to exist in the country without wondering if some crazy leftist or some mentally ill individual lurking around the corner is about to post up and kill you.”
WMUR reported that Poller told police he was drunk when he called Gaetz’s office and didn’t really plan to hurt anyone.
Still, Poller faces “several years” in prison if convicted.
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